On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 11:56:25PM +0900, Masahiko Sawada wrote:
> > I agreed on ripping out the converter plugin ability of pg_upgrade.
> > Remember pg_upgrade was originally written by EnterpriseDB staff, and I
> > think they expected their closed-source fork of Postgres might need a
> > custom page converter someday, but it never needed one, and at this
> > point I think having the code in there is just making things more
> > complex. I see _no_ reason for community Postgres to use a plugin
> > converter because we are going to need that code for every upgrade from
> > pre-9.6 to 9.6+, so why not just hard-code in the functions we need. We
> > can remove it once 9.5 is end-of-life.
> >
>
> Hm, we should rather remove the source code around PAGE_CONVERSION and
> page.c at 9.6?
Yes. I can do it if you wish.
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